New year, new feature! Welcome to Rank & File, where we track the week's biggest people and stories in easily digestible chart-form. We did this because sometimes it's hard to know what was the…   Read Story »

Frankie Rose's new LP, Interstellar is out in February, and today the Williamsburg scene mainstay offered up the record's first single "Know Me." You'll easily recognize the shoegazey swirl of the…   Read Story »

The Strokes' debut album Is This It was first released on 7/30/01. To help us celebrate this 10th Anniversary, we asked some of our favorite indie bands to cover each track. The resulting collection,…   Read Story »

How did you celebrate July 4th? On a rooftop BBQ listening to our summer mix? Maybe you stayed in and watched old episodes of Hoarders on Roku? Maybe I stayed in and did that. There is no way to…   Read Story »

New York just became the 6th largest state to approve same-sex marriage. Yes! The Senate bill passed 33-to-29, Governor Cuomo signed the measure shortly after, and the law goes into effect in 30…   Read Story »

The team that created the food-and-music minded IFC show Dinner With The Band are serving up Snacky Tunes Vol. 1, a free collection of live tracks recorded over the course of 68 some-odd installments…   Read Story »

You may know Frankie Rose as the onetime drummer of Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts and Dum Dum Girls. (Or maybe via her time as a NYC bartender and Smiths fan.) Of course, if you've paid attention, you…   Read Story »

When I was in high school I had a Meat Is Murder t-shirt. The one with the lyrics to the album's title track on the front: "It's not natural, normal or kind / The flesh you so fancifully fry / The…   Read Story »

After waxing nostalgic (complete with MP3s) about about the first-wave Slumberland bands I dug in the '90s, it only seems healthy to go outside, live in the present a little, and take a look at the…   Read Story »

Ex-Vivian Girls drummer (and NYC bartender) Frankie Rose recently made the Crystal Stilts an Ex too, starting her own project, the all-girl quintet Frankie Rose & The Outs. Well, almost all-girl:…   Read Story »